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Chicago Schools a Hotbed of Groomers

Chicago Schools a Hotbed of Groomers

I know the whole “Grooming” thing can sound hyperbolic to the point of foil-hat stuff — until the news goes right ahead and proves that it’s true. Once again, the difference between “conspiracy theory” and “headlines” is about a few weeks at best. So, when I argue that schools are

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Better Pay For Good Teachers

Chris Baillie ACT Education spokesperson Good teachers play a huge role in children’s upbringing and deserve to be appropriately remunerated. ACT has a plan to ensure the best teachers get paid more. Teachers play such an important role in our society; a good education is what sets someone up

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Waving the Equity Wand over Your Children

Waving the Equity Wand over Your Children

Phil Green You are going to need to reach for paracetamol as the headache of progressive interference in your everyday life is about to get worse. Dr. David Lillis trained in physics and mathematics at Victoria University and Curtin University in Perth, and has worked as a teacher, researcher, statistician

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CRT: Coming to a School near You

CRT: Coming to a School near You

Caleb Anderson breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com Caleb Anderson, a graduate of history, economics, psychotherapy and theology, has been an educator for over 30 years, 20 as a school principal. The final version of the New Zealand History Curriculum contained no significant changes in spite of widespread concerns. The consultation process was

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The West’s Grand Abdication

Fr Gavan Jennings mercatornet.com Rev. Gavan Jennings studied philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland and the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome. He is co-editor of the monthly journal Position Papers. He teaches occasional courses on Thomistic philosophy and theology. The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youth

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Learning Styles Don’t Actually Exist, Studies Show

Learning Styles Don’t Actually Exist, Studies Show

Patrick Carroll fee.org Patrick Carroll has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is an Editorial Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. Are you a visual, auditory, reading/writing, or kinesthetic learner? For millions of students, this question has become so familiar that they

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Pravda One Does It Again

Here’s a rather startling headline from 1News: Maori students are twice as badly behaved as white students. Oops, no, that wasn’t it. How about: Statistics show that the vast majority of NZ students, Maori and white alike, are reasonably well-behaved? Nope. Wrong again. Maori students are stood down

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Maffs and Readin and Stuff Is Harderer

Maffs and Readin and Stuff Is Harderer

If youse reckon kids are getting worser at English, they ain’t much gooder at maths, neither. New Zealand students’ English, maths and science results have been steadily falling for decades. But don’t bother sending them to Jacinda’s school for kids that can’t read good and want

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When They Masked Our Children They Crossed an Ethical Line

Megan Mansell brownstone.org Megan Mansell is a former district education director over special populations integration, serving students who are profoundly disabled, immunocompromised, undocumented, autistic, and behaviorally challenged; she also has a background in hazardous environs PPE applications. She is experienced in writing and monitoring protocol implementation for immunocompromised public

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Are We Sitting on a Ticking Time Bomb?

Are We Sitting on a Ticking Time Bomb?

As a friend of mine said, it has been another sad and distressing week in New Zealand. Once again, we have had a week of predictable outcomes. Jacinda Arden has convincingly lost the plot, had she ever known what the plot was. The Maori Caucus are running the show: the

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Indoctrination of the Day

Indoctrination of the Day

An opinion piece regarding teaching “climate education” in schools was published yesterday by Newsroom. The article states climate education is not a “priority” for the MoE, yet, but modules are already being trialled. An aim of the formal education system is to prepare children and young people for their (now

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Teaching CRT Isn’t Education: It’s Indoctrination

Teaching CRT Isn’t Education: It’s Indoctrination

Julian Adorney mises.org Julian Adorney is a writer and marketing consultant with the Foundation for Economic Education (fee.org), and has previously written for National Review, The Federalist and other outlets. A recent report by the Manhattan Institute (a conservative think tank) showed that critical race theory (CRT) concepts

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The School Curriculum, Intelligence and Democracy

The School Curriculum, Intelligence and Democracy

Elizabeth Rata is a professor of education at the University of Auckland and a founding member (in 1987) of Te Komiti o Nga Kura Kaupapa Maori o Tamaki Makaurau The intelligence of the New Zealand population increased during the 20th century. Nutrition played its part but so too did education.

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Jacinda’s Twaddle about Holding Parents to Account

Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former minister in the 1984-1990 governments. When I was young, kids appeared before a magistrate (a district court judge before 1978) sufficiently rarely that questions

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Education Should Be about the Basics

Helen Houghton New Conservative Co-Leader nc.org.nz Chronic truancy is not because parents don’t wake up in time to get their children to school as the National leader Christopher Luxon thinks and neither is it the fault of the majority of teachers or school leaders. As the PM

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Employers Are Done with Unis

Employers Are Done with Unis

In a previous life, your scribe was a graphic designer by trade. That included sub-contracting as part of a small, tight-knit team on a burgeoning new company. Very often, we’d receive resumes from new graduates looking for a job. Most of them went straight in the bin. Why? Because

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